From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jul 18 4: 6: 2 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F264737B407 for ; Thu, 18 Jul 2002 04:05:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from news.kiev.sovam.com (news.kiev.sovam.com [212.109.32.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2231443E58 for ; Thu, 18 Jul 2002 04:05:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gw-bsd-stable@news.kiev.sovam.com) Received: from mail by news.kiev.sovam.com with local (Exim 2.12 #1) id 17V96R-000Kk6-00 for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Thu, 18 Jul 2002 14:05:47 +0300 From: Dmitry Alyabyev To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Reply-To: dimitry@al.org.ua Subject: Re: Problems booting with a degraded RAID1 Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 14:05:46 +0300 Message-ID: References: <20020716223625.GA11595@bsdguru.com> X-Organization: Svit Online (post does not reflect views of Golden Telecom) X-Gated-By: news2list v1.4, (c) Vladimir Litovka X-Gated-Date: Thu Jul 18 11:05:47 2002 GMT Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ben Lovett wrote: > Has anyone else noticed any problems with booting a system with a > degraded RAID1 array? On a system with a on board HPT370 (Abit > KG7-RAID), it will drop me to a "root device selection" if the RAID is > in degraded mode. While this will generally not be a problem, it will > become one if the machine gets rebooted (forcefully or not) before the > dead hard disk is replaced. Currently the only way to bring the > system back up is to rebuild the array from the BIOS, which will keep > the machine down for the 30-45 minutes that it takes to rebuild the > array. > > Anyone have any work arounds, or fixes for this? AFAIR a lot of RAD-cards support background rebuilding so you can just start rebuild from BIOS and after reboot the process has re-start too. -- Dimitry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message